Benton, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m400 ft 120 m350 ft 110 m330 ft 100 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Benton sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 410–460 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the east side
Highest
500 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside city limits
Benton spans about 170 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Benton | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (CGI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi north of the city limits | 342 ft104 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Scott County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 911 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,437 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.0978° N, 89.5626° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Saint Francis River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cape Girardeau Regional (CGI) 342 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 63736
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Benton440 ft
- Kelso410 ft
- New Hamburg410 ft
- Scott City390 ft
- Commerce340 ft
- Morley340 ft
- Chaffee340 ft
- Oran340 ft
- Haywood City330 ft
- Blodgett320 ft
- Vanduser310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri1,243rd highest of 1,352
- Towns in Scott Countyhighest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jackson Hill600 ft
- Cox Hill550 ft
- Bell Hill500 ft
- Lone Rock, Scott County480 ft
- Lost Hill, Scott County470 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.